Comment 8 for bug 185165

Then we need a script in /usr/bin (?) to parse the files and launch the browser. A Perl script has already been provided on Ubuntu Forums (attached), and a dash script could probably be written if Perl is not included by default. This script should be changed to launch the default browser instead of hardcoded to Firefox, though.

Then a file association should be added so that this script is called whenever a file with the application/x-mswinurl.xml MIME type is double-clicked. I think this is just adding one line to /usr/share/applications/defaults.list:

    application/x-mswinurl=something.desktop